Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez lives and works in St Louis, Missouri as a crisis intervention counselor at Behavioral Health Response. He earned a Bachelors of Art in Studio Arts from Baylor University and obtained his Masters of Art in Art Therapy Counseling from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. As an artist, Michael utilizes the art process as an outlet to handle stressors with-in his life. Michael believes that art helps him understand certain aspects of himself that he maybe did not know existed. It is this idea of self-exploration that can often lead a person to insight…that gives you a sense of relief and overall better mental health. When Michael is not in the art studio, he is an art instructor and therapist at Chesterfield Arts, which provides him another outlet for utilizing his creativity to engage in self-care